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Best Practices | Information Technology

have an account with a social media platform (like Facebook or Gmail) Anyone who might have used a popular service (like Amazon, PayPal, Netflix, or the U.S. Post Office). Other Resources StaySafeOnline.org... View Details

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Investment management: industry resources

Career Library Career Guide to IM Top 25 IM Employers Company & Industry News Identify latest activities, changes in management, market share/market size, and trends. Factiva: Useful for international, original language news. Industry Highlights: ... View Details

31 Jul 2012
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likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Scientific Research and Development Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

always the wrong thing to do, Gilbert noted, because your project may one day become the core business. GE, once a maker of appliances, now derives 60 percent of its revenue and 70 percent of its profit from financial services. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2017
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Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details

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01 Jun 2003
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John Read

others to have a similar experience. We also receive some money for our urban programming from foundations and corporations. What would you say to HBS alums who are considering doing a course? Outward Bound is a great experience for... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

prosecuting child abuse and pornography cases. In many ways, she is as surprised with her career path as she was at finding herself at HBS in the first place. In other ways, she says, both make perfect sense. "I tried lots of... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell and Karina Souza

In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the unprecedent crypto momentum as a window of... View Details

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02 Dec 2018
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A Chance to Thrive

after HBS and then joined Lehman Brothers, where she cofounded a group that focused on developing strategic opportunities for women and minority-owned financial services firms. At work as well as through her... View Details

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

published? Kash Rangan: A lot has changed since the research was first published over ten years ago. With the proliferation of computing power and availability of powerful software, much of what we called the Order Management Cycle has been easier to track. In View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Research Online

investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music downloads offer two contrasting... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

developed an imaging material comparable to paper, it would need to partner with others to build the display modules, handheld devices, digital content libraries, and e-commerce services to take advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

25 Aug 2022
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Ready for Departure

As millions of passengers return to the skies for long-delayed plans, they’ll be returning to an airport that’s likely a little different. The lockdowns of 2020 hit aviation harder than almost any other industry. Airports, as a subsector,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Chris Gash; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

reorganized the center - once dependent on donations and the volunteer services of its ashram members - into a team-based organization of paid staff, volunteers, and live-in members who have taken religious vows. Instituting new View Details

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accessible at the online.hbs.edu and/or myhbx.org web domains) or any other websites, applications, programs or online or mobile products or services of Harvard Business School Online (collectively, the... View Details

09 Jun 2003
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Incentives and Operational Excellence

delivery—for free. If you run the video store, you worry about the customer who comes in specifically to rent The Matrix but leaves annoyed and empty handed because the video isn't on the shelves today. According to Harvard Business School professor V.G. Narayanan, a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2005
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Upstart Startup

In 1999, Wall Street bankers Randy Altschuler (MBA ’98) and Joseph Sigelman (MBA ’97) founded OfficeTiger in Madras, India, to serve as an outsourcing shop to perform secretarial services for Wall Street View Details

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